If any person, for the purpose of compassing or furthering any
political object, or aiding the success of any political party or organization,
or resisting the laws, shall join or in any way connect or unite himself with
any oath-bound secret political or military organization, society or
association of whatsoever name or character; or shall form or organize or
combine and agree with any other person or persons to form or organize any such
organization; or as a member of any secret political or military party or
organization shall use, or agree to use, any certain signs or grips or
passwords, or any disguise of the person or voice, or any disguise whatsoever
for the advancement of its object, and shall take or administer any
extrajudicial oath or other secret, solemn pledge, or any like secret means; or
if any two or more persons, for the purpose of compassing or furthering any
political object, or aiding the success of any political party or organization,
or circumventing the laws, shall secretly assemble, combine or agree together,
and the more effectually to accomplish such purposes, or any of them, shall use
any certain signs, or grips, or passwords, or any disguise of the person or
voice, or other disguise whatsoever, or shall take or administer any
extrajudicial oath or other secret, solemn pledge; or if any persons shall band
together and assemble to muster, drill or practice any military evolutions
except by virtue of the authority of an officer recognized by law, or of an
instructor in institutions or schools in which such evolutions form a part of
the course of instruction; or if any person shall knowingly permit any of the
acts and things herein forbidden to be had, done or performed on his premises,
or on any premises under his control; or if any person being a member of any
such secret political or military organization shall not at once abandon the
same and separate himself entirely therefrom, every person so offending shall
be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1868-9, c. 267; 1870-1, c. 133; 1871-2, c. 143; Code, s. 1095; Rev.,
s. 3439; C.S., s. 4180; 1993, c. 539, s. 10; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)